Chapter CXX. *to dissolve the “Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia,” and to authorize the Transfer of its Effects to the “Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind.”* June 13, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
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Chap. CXX.— An Act *to dissolve the “Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia,” and to authorize the Transfer of its Effects to the “Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind.”* June 13, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the trustees of “Washington’s One corporation may transfer its funds, &c., to the other. 1842, ch. 41.
Vol. vi. p. 830.Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia,” incorporated by an act of Congress approved on the thirteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-two, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, by deed or other instrument in writing, to transfer all their funds and property of every description to the “Columbia Institution for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,” incorporated by an act of Congress approved February sixteen, 1857, ch. 46.
Vol. xi. p. 161.eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by said corporate bodies and incorporated in such deed or instrument of writing. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said deed of transfer or Deed to be recorded.instrument of writing shall be recorded in the recorder’s office for land titles, in the county of Washington, and District of Columbia, and the terms and conditions of said deed shall be as obligatory upon said Columbia Institution as if they formed a part of its charter; and from the date of the record thereof, as aforesaid, the trustees of “Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society” shall be forever there after absolved from their trust, and the act of June thirteen, eighteen THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 120, 121. 1860. 31hundred and forty-two, conferring upon them corporate powers and privileges, shall he thenceforward repealed: *Provided,* That all the debts and Proviso unto debts, &c., of said corporation.pecuniary liabilities of the said “Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum shall be transferred to, assumed by, and be debts of the said “Columbia Institution for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,” which shall be responsible therefor, and suits at law or in equity may be commenced against said last-mentioned corporation the same as if said debts had been originally incurred by it.
Approved, June 13, 1860.